I am a board certified internist, a non-traditional student, a non-traditional pathway, with a total of six years of leadership experience in hospital medicine, with experience in the emergency room, the hospitalist, the primary care setting, the urban as well as rural setting, comfortable with the ill patient, and seeing pediatric patients as well. I am an early adopter of technology, adept at electronic health records, comfortable with end of life issues and the non-compliant patients with extensive experience in culturally sensitive environments. I speak Spanish, am familiar with Portuguese and French, and my first language is English.